The army was lined up under the city, and the guns and cannons of Li Zhi's troops made the generals very curious. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info In particular, eighty of the small Hongyi cannons made the generals look sideways. Except for Qi Jiguang's Qi family army back then, the generals have not heard of which army in the Ming Dynasty is equipped with so many firearms. The generals rode on their horses, but they kept looking at the Tiger Master's side.

Zuo Liangyu was unruly, and he didn't know if he had the determination to fight to the death, so he was arranged by Xiong Wencan in the Chinese army and mixed with other armies.

Xiong Wencan's old man rode a war horse, and stood behind the front with the generals on the expedition, in front of the Chinese army. There was a strong man beside him holding a large banner, and next to it was a tall bear-shaped flag, as well as an equally towering flag of various colors. At this time, the big silk and the flag are waving in the wind, which is very beautiful.

The horn sounded, the army marched, and the infantry of the Ma Army stepped out of the billowing smoke and dust, and killed Zhang Xianzhong's thief army by the Yonghe River.

After walking for a while, Li Zhi released 500 cavalry of the Xuanfeng Regiment to be sentinel cavalry to reconnoiter intelligence within a radius of five miles. The sentry horse reported that Liu Guoneng and Zhang Tianlin, who were originally lined up more than ten miles north and south of the thieves, had withdrawn, and there were no other thieves around the Yonghe River where the thieves were stationed except for Zhang Xianzhong's department.

Li Zhi secretly wondered why all the thieves withdrew overnight.

The army went twenty miles east, and then a sentinel rode a fast horse in return, and the thief soldiers and horses were three miles away.

The generals told their soldiers to draw their swords, mount their horses, and prepare for battle.

This side has just been prepared, and Zhang Xianzhong has already been killed over there. Zhang Xianzhong had already detected the movements of the officers and troops, and his 150,000 troops had already finished draped at this time, leaving the camp by the river and killing the 50,000 officers and soldiers.

More than 100,000 thieves and horses walked quickly towards this side, bringing out a cloud of smoke and dust.

Xiong Wencan rode in front of the whole army, drew his sword and shouted: "Report to the emperor to save the people of Li, just today." Armies go into battle to kill the enemy! ”

Xiong Wencan's command flag behind him was unfurled, and the order to march was transmitted to all armies. More than 40,000 sergeants sang "ho" loudly and raised their swords to kill the military horses that offered the thieves.

Li Zhi stared at the command flag of the Chinese army, and after looking at it for a long time, he didn't see the banner for the palace army to fight, so he quickly rode to Xiong Wencan to ask.

"Junmen, why don't our troops go to war?"

Xiong Wencan stroked his beard and said: "In this battle, more than 40,000 people of our army will be able to win the battle, and there is no need for guerrilla generals to participate in the war." The guerrilla general's 8,000 soldiers and horses are guarding the periphery, just don't let other thieves enter the battlefield! ”

It turned out that Xiong Wencan had another important use for Li Zhi, and Li Zhi agreed to come down.

The two armies approached quickly, three miles, two miles, and one mile away, and finally collided together, brandishing swords, bows and arrows. The officers and soldiers were gathered, and their morale was like a rainbow. Zhang Xianzhong has many soldiers and horses and is brave, and he is also full of confidence, and he is not afraid of the officers and soldiers at all, and he fights with more than 40,000 officers and soldiers.

Li Zhi rode to a small high mound with several officers and raised his binoculars to look at the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of people fought together, and soldiers and horses from all walks of life were mixed up, making it impossible to see the situation on the battlefield. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers are all wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, and you can see what is going on if you look closely.

The front part of the thief is a hungry soldier, and his combat power is very poor.

Mu Wenshou of the forward department of the official army was very brave, riding a war horse and holding a halberd, and led dozens of family members into the thief array, fighting back and forth in the group of thieves. He has a strong halberd and is very powerful, and from time to time he raises a gun to assassinate and slash the thieves under the horse.

Fighting with his vanguard were the hungry soldiers of the thieves, these hungry soldiers were all miscellaneous soldiers who had been thieves for several months, armed with spears and sticks, and they were completely vulnerable, and they were beaten to pieces under the impact of Mu Wenshou.

The weapons of the hungry soldiers were very broken, and they did not even have long swords and broadswords. After all, a furnace of molten iron can make dozens of spearheads, and if it is used to make long swords and broadswords, it can only make a few.

It wasn't long before some hungry soldiers did not dare to fight anymore and fled behind howling. However, these hungry soldiers did not run long before they were forced back by the cavalry and the most elite old battalion behind them. The hungry soldiers hovered between the brave officers and the fierce old cavalry camp, crumbling.

Next, the Chinese army of the official army pressed up. Zuo Liangyu lived up to his reputation, he held a long-handled broadsword and led a thousand families to crash into the hungry soldiers of the thieves. When the soldiers arrived, the hungry soldiers of the thieves were crushed, and they immediately scattered as birds and beasts, and fled to the sides where there was no one to escort them.

It didn't take long for Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of hungry soldiers to escape. More than 100,000 people rushed on the battlefield, like a tidal wave that broke down at low tide.

The hungry soldiers were defeated, and Zhang Xianzhong must have been very distressed. Li Zhi raised his binoculars to look at Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army, and saw the heralds around Zhang Xianzhong running fast, and several generals rode into the group of soldiers and horses, leading the foot soldiers, horse soldiers and horsemen to meet the Chinese army of the official army.

The officers and soldiers and Zhang Xianzhong's real soldiers and horses fought together.

This time, the combat effectiveness of the thieves should not be underestimated. Although those foot soldiers did not have horses, they were also old thieves for many years, and their combat effectiveness was comparable to that of the regular soldiers of the official army. And the thieves' horse army and horsemen are even more soldiers and horses that have accumulated years, and they have the combat effectiveness of officials and soldiers. 20,000 thieves and soldiers faced more than 40,000 officers and soldiers, and the two sides fought in formation, and it was difficult to distinguish for a while.

Mu Wenshou, Zuo Liangyu and others, who had just burst into the formation of the prancing horse, did not dare to rush too fiercely at this time, and they only dared to take their families to fight in front of the formation, and compete with the thieves in the formation and knife skills.

Li Zhi held a telescope to look in the formation, and saw Chen Hongfan on the northern flank forming a formation against the rogue horse army that was plundering the formation. There were many thieves and horses, and there were five or six thousand horse troops, all of whom gathered on the north flank to attack Chen Hongfan, and Chen Hongfan had some difficulty in defending.

But soon, Huang Degong of the Chinese army led more than 6,000 Beijing battalion troops and horses to the northern flank to support Chen Hongfan. Na Huang Degong drank half a jar of rice wine before going to war in the morning, and at this time, people borrowed the wine to be more majestic. With a large knife in hand, he led a thousand cavalry to rush towards the thief horse army, and led the team to kill the thief. His arrival relieved most of the pressure on Chen Hongfan at once.

Liu Liangzuo's 3,000 men on the southern flank faced Zhang Xianzhong's 2,000 horsemen. Those horsemen are the elite of the thieves, riding high-headed war horses one by one, wearing inlaid iron armor, raising horned bows or wielding long-handled weapons in their hands, constantly attacking Liu Liangzuo's Lu 0zhou soldiers and horses, making Liu Liangzuo fight quite difficult. But not long after, Xiong Wencan's Chinese military order flag was unfurled, and Long Zaitian, the deputy general of Yun 0 Nan in the Chinese army, led 2,000 Yunnan soldiers to the southern flank to help Liu Liangzuo resist the thief's horsemen.

The 2,000 Dian soldiers were even equipped with two war elephants. However, the two war elephants did not dare to rush too far forward under the threat of the bow and arrows of the thief's horse, but followed the other soldiers and horses, and swept back and forth on the battle line.

Zhang Xianzhong's 20,000 soldiers and horses fought against more than 40,000 officers and soldiers, and for a time they were indistinguishable from each other, regardless of victory or defeat. Xiong Wencan immediately stood behind the two thousand Cantonese soldiers, frowning.

The combat effectiveness of the thieves under the command of the thieves is really good. What was supposed to be an easy battle now seems to be difficult to end in a short period of time.

Li Zhi held the binoculars and looked at it for a while, and saw that the two sides were fighting inseparably, and he couldn't stand it anymore. The several regiment commanders behind Li Zhi were all contemptuous when they saw that the officers and soldiers were so difficult to kill with the thieves.

The combat effectiveness of these Ming soldiers is too different from Li Zhi's soldiers and horses. The battle in which the Tiger Ben Division defeated the Sacrifice Thief Horse Army a few days ago only took half a cup of tea.

Li Zhi finally couldn't help it, rode to Xiong Wencan, and said loudly: "Junmen, now the battle situation is stalemate, and the people and horses are lost in vain. It is better to let the last general go around from behind and defeat the soldiers and horses of the thieves in one fell swoop. (To be continued.) )